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- “I had assumed my mother had written a novel about real estate—after all the title was A Hot Property…” Kate Feiffer on reading her mother’s x-rated novel and considering female-authored erotica as a form of social critique. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Jessica Shattuck recommends a reading list of of the 1960s’ and 1970s’ protest movements to understand activism today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “But what I am quite sure speaks through these pauses the most is: silence.” Jon Fosse on saying the unsayable. | Lit Hub Craft
- What does climate change mean for athletics? Madeleine Orr on how wildfires threatened a high school football season. | Lit Hub Sports
- Bee Sacks on coming out as a nonbinary author: “I think that I do not want to come out so much as endlessly reinscribe myself, my words, my names.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- “A dream visits me from time to time like a recurring fever. Each version differs slightly from the last.” Read from Ángel Bonomini’s short story collection The Novices of Lerna, translated by Jordan Landsman. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Becca Rothfeld reflects on “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” by the Magnetic Fields. | Tracks on Tracks
- “Is it any wonder that, for comfort and mentorship for her writing work, she turned to an older artist who couldn’t hurt her?” How Katherine Mansfield drew inspiration from Anton Chekhov. | JSTOR Daily
- Who are campuses meant to be safe for? “Students aged 19 or 20 found themselves under attack by men in their thirties and forties, some claiming to have had military or paramilitary training.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Alexandra Alter visits The Lynx, Lauren Groff’s new bookstore. | The New York Times
- “If our friends, or our partners, find out that we consider the privacy of our attention at least slightly sacred, to the extent that it still belongs to us, so much the better.” Lillian Fishman considers the read receipt. | Granta
- Alexandra Schwartz profiles Miranda July and asks what she means by “writing straight.” | The New Yorker
